Oracle Managing Director Question and Answers
| 37. | Where is the instruction about control file stored? |
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| Initialization parameter file or server parameter file stores the information about control file. The name of the parameter to store control file information is CONTROL_FILES. | |
| 38. | At what stage of instance, startup information about control file is read (from parameter file)? |
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| Control file is required to mount the database; therefore the control file information should be available before mounting that is, at mount stage. | |
| 39. | What view would you use to determine free space in a tablespace? |
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| The DBA_FREE_SPACE view can be used to determine free space in a tablespace. | |
| 40. | How can you find out which rows are chained? |
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| You can use the LIST CHAIND ROWS clause with the ANALYZE table to get the list of chained rows. You need a specific table to store the result of this statement. | |